Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily with Vue.js About This Book Learn how to propagate DOM changes across the website without writing extensive jQuery callbacks code. Learn how to achieve reactivity and easily compose views with Vue.js and understand what it does behind the scenes. Explore the core features of Vue.js with small examples, learn how to build dynamic content into preexisting web applications, and build Vue.js applications from scratch. Who This Book Is For This book is perfect for novice web developer seeking to learn new technologies or frameworks and also for webdev gurus eager to enrich their experience. Whatever your level of expertise, this book is a great introduction to the wonderful world of reactive web apps. What You Will Learn Build a fully functioning reactive web application in Vue.js from scratch. The importance of the MVVM architecture and how Vue.js compares with other frameworks such as Angular.js and React.js. How to bring reactivity to an existing static application using Vue.js. How to use plugins to enrich your applications. How to develop customized plugins to meet your needs. How to use Vuex to manage global application’s state. In Detail Vue.js is one of the latest new frameworks to have piqued the interest of web developers due to its reactivity, reusable components, and ease of use. This book shows developers how to leverage its features to build high-performing, reactive web interfaces with Vue.js. From the initial structuring to full deployment, this book provides step-by-step guidance to developing an interactive web interface from scratch with Vue.js. You will start by building a simple application in Vue.js which will let you observe its features in action. Delving into more complex concepts, you will learn about reactive data binding, reusable components, plugins, filters, and state management with Vuex. This book will also teach you how to bring reactivity to an existing static application using Vue.js. By the time you finish this book you will have built, tested, and deployed a complete reactive application in Vue.js from scratch. Style and approach This book is a thorough, step-by-step guide showing readers how to build complete web apps with Vue.js. While teaching its intricacies, this book shows how to implement the MVVM architecture in the real world and build high-performing web interfaces.

Mastering material for dealing with DBA certification exams About This Book ? Prepare yourself for the IBM C2090-600 certification exam ? Cover over 50 Db2 procedures including database design, performance, and security ? Work through over 150 Q&As to gain confidence on each topic Who This Book Is For The IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide is an excellent choice for database administrators, architects, and application developers who are keen to obtain certification in Db2. Basic understanding of Db2 is expected in order to get the most out of this guide. What You Will Learn ? Configure and manage Db2 servers, instances, and databases ? Implement Db2 BLU Acceleration and a DB2 pureScale environment ? Create, manage, and alter Db2 database objects ? Use the partitioning capabilities available within Db2 ? Enforce constraint checking with the SET INTEGRITY command ? Utilize the Db2 problem determination (db2pd) and dsmtop tools ? Configure and manage HADR ? Understand how to encrypt data in transit and at rest In Detail IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges. Style and approach A comprehensive certification preparation guide for the C2090-600 exam, covering all the topics in greater detail and with sample questions and answers at the end of each chapter.

Develop blockchain application with step-by-step instructions, working example and helpful recommendations About This Book ? Understanding the blockchain technology from the cybersecurity perspective ? Developing cyber security solutions with Ethereum blockchain technology ? Understanding real-world deployment of blockchain based applications Who This Book Is For The book is targeted towards security professionals, or any stakeholder dealing with cybersecurity who wants to understand the next-level of securing infrastructure using Blockchain. Basic understanding of Blockchain can be an added advantage. What You Will Learn ? Understand the cyberthreat landscape ? Learn about Ethereum and Hyperledger Blockchain ? Program Blockchain solutions ? Build Blockchain-based apps for 2FA, and DDoS protection ? Develop Blockchain-based PKI solutions and apps for storing DNS entries ? Challenges and the future of cybersecurity and Blockchain In Detail Blockchain technology is being welcomed as one of the most revolutionary and impactful innovations of today. Blockchain technology was first identified in the world’s most popular digital currency, Bitcoin, but has now changed the outlook of several organizations and empowered them to use it even for storage and transfer of value. This book will start by introducing you to the common cyberthreat landscape and common attacks such as malware, phishing, insider threats, and DDoS. The next set of chapters will help you to understand the workings of Blockchain technology, Ethereum and Hyperledger architecture and how they fit into the cybersecurity ecosystem. These chapters will also help you to write your first distributed application on Ethereum Blockchain and the Hyperledger Fabric framework. Later, you will learn about the security triad and its adaptation with Blockchain. The last set of chapters will take you through the core concepts of cybersecurity, such as DDoS protection, PKI-based identity, 2FA, and DNS security. You will learn how Blockchain plays a crucial role in transforming cybersecurity solutions. Toward the end of the book, you will also encounter some real-world deployment examples of Blockchain in security cases, and also understand the short-term challenges and future of cybersecurity with Blockchain. Style and approach This book will follow a practical approach to help understand blockchain technology to transform cybersecurity solutions

Write custom plugins for Puppet, including facts, providers, and functions About This Book ? Grasp recipes that work with centralized and decentralized deployments ? Explore language differences and enhancements anticipated in Puppet version 5.x ? Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features Who This Book Is For Puppet 5 Cookbook is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. You’ll need some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, filesystem, and text editing. No prior programming experience is required. What You Will Learn ? Discover the latest and most advanced features of Puppet ? Bootstrap your Puppet installation using powerful tools like Rake ? Master techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments ? Use exported resources and forge modules to set up Puppet modules ? Create efficient manifests to streamline your deployments ? Automate Puppet master deployment using Git hooks and PuppetDB ? Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable In Detail Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of managing each node.Puppet 5 Cookbook will take you through Puppet's latest and most advanced features, including Docker containers, Hiera, and AWS Cloud Orchestration. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, this book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices with an emphasis on real-world implementation. You will learn to set up, install, and create your first manifests with Puppet version control, and also understand various sysadmin tasks, including managing config files, using Augeas, and generating files from snippets and templates. As the book progresses, you’ll explore virtual resources and use Puppet's resource scheduling and auditing features. In the concluding chapters, you’ll walk through managing applications and writing your own resource types, providers, and external node classifiers. By the end of this book, you will have learned to report, log, and debug your system. Style and approach A recipe-based guide filled with quick step-by-step instructions that are immediately applicable

Leverage the power of ROS to build exciting collaborative robots. About This Book ? Delve into an open source, meta-operating system for your robot ? Get acquainted with tools and libraries for building and running code on multiple platforms ? Use Gazebo to model your robot and create a virtual environment Who This Book Is For If you’re a researcher or engineer with an interest in the problems, solutions, and future research issues that you may encounter in the development of robotic applications, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of C++ and Python programming with the GNU/Linux environment is strongly recommended to assist with understanding the key concepts covered in the book. What You Will Learn ? Explore advanced concepts, such as ROS pluginlib, nodelets, and actionlib ? Work with ROS visualization, profiling, and debugging tools ? Gain experience in robot modeling and simulation using Gazebo ? Understand the ROS Navigation Stack for mobile robots ? Configure a MoveIt! package for a manipulator robot ? Develop an autonomous navigation framework for MAV using ORB SLAM and MoveIt ? Integrate sensors, actuators, and robots into the ROS ecosystem ? Get acquainted with the ROS-Industrial package with hardware support, capabilities, and applications In Detail This book will leverage the power of ROS with an introduction to its core and advanced concepts through exciting recipes. You will get acquainted with the use of different synchronous and asynchronous communication methods, including messages, services, and actions. You will learn how to use the various debugging and visualization tools used in development and how to interface sensors and actuators with the ROS framework. Firstly, you will get to grips with ROS simulation frameworks, such as Gazebo and RotorS for modeling and simulating any physical robot and virtual environment. You will also cover mobile robotics, micro-aerial vehicles, and robotic arms, which are the leading branches of robotic applications. Robot Operating System Cookbook will also guide you in the development of an autonomous navigation framework for both mobile robots and micro-aerial vehicles. Finally, you will explore ROS-Industrial, an open source project that extends the advanced capabilities of ROS software to manufacturing industries. Style and approach The goal of this book is to provide an integrated overview of the concepts and techniques. ROS is not an operating system in the traditional sense of process management and scheduling; rather, it provides a structured communications layer above the host operating systems of a heterogeneous compute cluster.

Install and configure a pfSense router/firewall, and become a pfSense expert in the process. About This Book ? You can always do more to secure your software – so extend and customize your pfSense firewall ? Build a high availability security system that’s fault-tolerant – and capable of blocking potential threats ? Put the principles of better security into practice by implementing examples provided in the text Who This Book Is For This book is for those with at least an intermediate understanding of networking. Prior knowledge of pfSense would be helpful but is not required. Those who have the resources to set up a pfSense firewall, either in a real or virtual environment, will especially benefit, as they will be able to follow along with the examples in the book. What You Will Learn ? Configure pfSense services such as DHCP, Dynamic DNS, captive portal, DNS, NTP and SNMP ? Set up a managed switch to work with VLANs ? Use pfSense to allow, block and deny traffic, and to implement Network Address Translation (NAT) ? Make use of the traffic shaper to lower and raise the priority of certain types of traffic ? Set up and connect to a VPN tunnel with pfSense ? Incorporate redundancy and high availability by utilizing load balancing and the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) ? Explore diagnostic tools in pfSense to solve network problems In Detail pfSense has the same reliability and stability as even the most popular commercial firewall offerings on the market – but, like the very best open-source software, it doesn’t limit you. You’re in control – you can exploit and customize pfSense around your security needs. Mastering pfSense - Second Edition, covers features that have long been part of pfSense such as captive portal, VLANs, traffic shaping, VPNs, load balancing, Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP), multi-WAN, and routing. It also covers features that have been added with the release of 2.4, such as support for ZFS partitions and OpenVPN 2.4. This book takes into account the fact that, in order to support increased cryptographic loads, pfSense version 2.5 will require a CPU that supports AES-NI. The second edition of this book places more of an emphasis on the practical side of utilizing pfSense than the previous edition, and, as a result, more examples are provided which show in step-by-step fashion how to implement many features. Style and approach Practical guide to learn the advanced functionalities of pfSense with minimum fuss.

Learn how to apply a test-driven development process by building ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications. About This Book ? Create tests to quickly detect and resolve issues when writing portable code ? Uncover code integration issues that improve code quality using continuous integration ? Set up and use data-driven unit testing to verify your code Who This Book Is For This book is for .NET developers who would like to build efficient applications by implementing principles of test-driven development. C# programming and working knowledge of VS is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Write flexible, maintainable, and verifiable code for .NET Core ? Write testable code using SOLID principles and dependency injections ? Recognize the characteristics of a good unit test ? Structure and group your unit test ? Use mock objects to handle dependencies ? Set up an end-to-end continuous integration process In Detail This book guides developers to create robust, production-ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications through the practice of test-driven development process. In C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development, you will learn the different stages of the TDD life cycle, basics of TDD, best practices, and anti-patterns. It will teach you how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC sample application, write testable code with SOLID principles and set up a dependency injection for your sample application. Next, you will learn the xUnit testing framework and learn how to use its attributes and assertions. You’ll see how to create data-driven unit tests and mock dependencies in your code. You will understand the difference between running and debugging your tests on .NET Core on LINUX versus Windows and Visual Studio. As you move forward, you will be able to create a healthy continuous integration process for your sample application using GitHub, TeamCity, Cake, and Microsoft VSTS. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to write clean and robust code through the effective practice of TDD, set up CI build steps to test and build applications as well as how to package application for deployment on NuGet. Style and approach The book explores the concepts of test driven development in depth so readers can apply these proven techniques to build sophisticated software with C# and .NET.

Get the most out of .NET framework using standard libraries and create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch About This Book ? Write code once and share within .NET ecosystem in Windows, Linux and macOS ? Give your .NET Libraries a common framework in cloud and on premise with the latest .NET Standard 2.0 ? Build a wide range of applications from Mobile with Xamarin to Web with ASP.NET Who This Book Is For This book is for .NET developers who are looking to build dynamic applications with the latest .NET Standard. C# knowledge is required. What You Will Learn ? Create a .NET Standard 2.0 library ? Use System.IO within the .NET Standard 2.0 ? Make use of your legacy .NET libraries with the new .NET Core standard ? Explore the thread support to create a multithreaded .NET Standard 2.0 library ? Create a .NET Standard 2.0 library and use it with an Android and iOS application ? Implement various Visual Studio 2017 diagnostics and debugging tools ? Create a NuGet Package and submit the package to the NuGet Package Manager ? Use Visual Studio 2017 azure tools to deploy the application to Azure ? Test and deliver a .NET Standard 2.0 library In Detail The .NET Standard is a standard that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement, making it easy for developers to access and use one common library for their development needs. This book begins with a quick refresher, helping you understand the mechanics of the new standard and offering insight into how it works. You’ll explore the core library concepts, such as working with collections, configurations, I/O, security, and multithreading. You’ll explore the iOS and Android libraries of Xamarin and we’ll guide you through creating a .NET Standard 2.0 library, which you’ll use with both Android and iOS applications. In the final chapters, you’ll learn the various debugging and diagnostics tools to deliver quality libraries and create a NuGet package of the .NET Standard 2.0 library. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to expand your current workflow to various .NET flavors and have the essential skills to create a .NET Standard 2.0 library from scratch to package and deliver it to the world. Style and approach A recipe-based approach to help you get the most out of the .NET Standard 2.0 Library that can be implemented to all the .NET Platforms

Gain hands-on experience of installing OpenShift Origin 3.9 in a production configuration and managing applications using the platform you built Key Features *Gain hands-on experience of working with Kubernetes and Docker *Learn how to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift *Get a practical approach to managing applications on a cloud-based platform *Explore multi-site and HA architectures of OpenShift for production Book Description Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. OpenShift is a new generation of container management platforms built on top of both Docker and Kubernetes. It brings additional functionality to the table, something that is lacking in Kubernetes. This new functionality significantly helps software development teams to bring software development processes to a whole new level. In this book, we’ll start by explaining the container architecture, Docker, and CRI-O overviews. Then, we'll look at container orchestration and Kubernetes. We’ll cover OpenShift installation, and its basic and advanced components. Moving on, we’ll deep dive into concepts such as deploying application OpenShift. You’ll learn how to set up an end-to-end delivery pipeline while working with applications in OpenShift as a developer or DevOps. Finally, you’ll discover how to properly design OpenShift in production environments. This book gives you hands-on experience of designing, building, and operating OpenShift Origin 3.9, as well as building new applications or migrating existing applications to OpenShift. What you will learn *Understand the core concepts behind containers and container orchestration tools *Understand Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, and their relation to CRI-O *Install and work with Kubernetes and OpenShift *Understand how to work with persistent storage in OpenShift *Understand basic and advanced components of OpenShift, including security and networking *Manage deployment strategies and application’s migration in OpenShift *Understand and design OpenShift high availability Who this book is for The book is for system administrators, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, or any stakeholder who wants to understand the concept and business value of OpenShift.

Take advantage of Kotlin's concurrency primitives to write efficient multithreaded applications Key Features *Learn Kotlin’s unique approach to multithreading *Work through practical examples that will help you write concurrent non-blocking code *Improve the overall execution speed in multiprocessor and multicore systems Book Description The primary requirements of modern-day applications are scalability, speed, and making the most use of hardware. Kotlin meets these requirements with its immense support for concurrency. Many concurrent primitives of Kotlin, such as channels and suspending functions, are designed to be non-blocking and efficient. This allows for new approaches to concurrency and creates unique challenges for the design and implementation of concurrent code. Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses those challenges with real-life examples and exercises that take advantage of Kotlin's primitives. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you will learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to be able to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write asynchronous applications that are collaborative. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to leverage multi-core processing. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work internally, allowing you to see the bigger picture. Throughout the book you'll build an Android application – an RSS reader – designed and implemented according to the different topics covered in the book What you will learn *Understand Kotlin’s approach to concurrency *Implement sequential and asynchronous suspending functions *Create suspending data sources that are resumed on demand *Explore the best practices for error handling *Use channels to communicate between coroutines *Uncover how coroutines work under the hood Who this book is for If you’re a Kotlin or Android developer interested in learning how to program concurrently to enhance the performance of your applications, this is the book for you.

Bring your data to life with Power BI Key Features *Get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI and its Business Intelligence capabilities *Build accurate analytical models, reports and dashboards? *Get faster and more intuitive insights from your data using Microsoft Power BI Book Description Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented What you will learn *Connect to data sources using both import and DirectQuery options *Use the Query Editor to apply data transformations and data cleansing processes, including learning how to write M and R scripts *Design optimized data models by designing relationships and DAX calculations *Leverage built-in and custom visuals to design effective reports *Use the Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to implement Row Level Security on your model *Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization *Deploy your Power BI Desktop files into the Power BI Report Server Who this book is for This book is for aspiring Business Intelligence professionals who want to get up and running with Microsoft Power BI. If you have a basic understanding of BI concepts and want to learn how to apply them using Microsoft Power BI, this book is for you.

Quickly learn and employ practical recipes for developing real-world, cross-platform applications using Delphi. Key Features *Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications *Design and deploy real-world apps by implementing a single source codebase *Build robust and optimized GUI applications with ease Book Description Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT. What you will learn * Develop visually stunning applications using FireMonkey *Deploy LiveBinding effectively with the right object-oriented programming (OOP) approach *Create RESTful web services that run on Linux or Windows *Build mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficiently *Call platform native API on Android and iOS for an unpublished API *Manage software customization by making better use of an extended RTTI *Integrate your application with IOT Who this book is for Delphi Cookbook is for intermediate developers with a basic knowledge of Delphi who want to discover and understand all the development possibilities offered by it.

Explore TensorFlow's capabilities to perform efficient deep learning on images Key Features *Discover image processing for machine vision *Build an effective image classification system using the power of CNNs *Leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient deep learning Book Description TensorFlow is Google’s popular offering for machine learning and deep learning, quickly becoming a favorite tool for performing fast, efficient, and accurate deep learning tasks. Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow shows you the practical implementations of real-world projects, teaching you how to leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient image processing using the power of deep learning. With the help of this book, you will get to grips with the different paradigms of performing deep learning such as deep neural nets and convolutional neural networks, followed by understanding how they can be implemented using TensorFlow. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the concepts of deep learning and their implementation with TensorFlow and Keras. What you will learn *Build machine learning models particularly focused on the MNIST digits *Work with Docker and Keras to build an image classifier *Understand natural language models to process text and images *Prepare your dataset for machine learning *Create classical, convolutional, and deep neural networks *Create a RESTful image classification server Who this book is for Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow is for you if you are an application developer, data scientist, or machine learning practitioner looking to integrate machine learning into application software and master deep learning by implementing practical projects in TensorFlow. Knowledge of Python programming and basics of deep learning are required to get the best out of this book.

Build modern, fast, and progressive web applications using modern features of PHP 7 and TypeScript Key Features *Explore the latest features of Angular and Laravel to build applications that are powerful, consistent, and maintainable *Develop modern user interfaces with a reusable component-based architecture using Angular 6 and Bootstrap 4 *Learn how to build secure backend APIs with Laravel Book Description Angular, considered as one of the most popular and powerful frontend frameworks, has undergone a major overhaul to embrace emerging web technologies so that developers can build cutting-edge web applications. This book gives you practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Angular with a Laravel Restful back end. The book begins with a thorough introduction to Laravel and Angular and its core concepts like custom errors messages, components, routers, and Angular-cli, with each concept being explained first, and then put into practice in the case-study project. With the basics covered, you will learn how sophisticated UI features can be added using NgBootstrao and a component-based architecture. You will learn to extend and customize variables from Bootstrap CSS framework. You will learn how to create secure web application with Angular and Laravel using token based authentication. Finally, you will learn all about progressive web applications and build and deploy a complete fullstack application using Docker and Docker-compose. By the end of this book, you'll gain a solid understanding of Angular 6 and how it interacts with a Laravel 5.x backend What you will learn *Explore the core features of Angular 6 to create sophisticated user interfaces *Use Laravel 5 to its full extent to create a versatile backend layer based on RESTful APIs *Configure a web application in order to accept user-defined data and persist it into the database using server-side APIs *Build an off-line-first application using service-worker and manifest file *Deal with token based authentication on single page application (SPA). *Secure your application against threats and vulnerabilities in a time efficient way *Deploy using Docker and Docker-compose Who this book is for This book targets developers who are new to Angular, Laravel, or both, and are seeking a practical, best-practice approach to development with these technologies. They must have some knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Familiarity of PHP is assumed to get the most from this book.

With Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python, learn the tools and techniques required in building various kinds of powerful recommendation systems (collaborative, knowledge and content based) and deploying them to the web Key Features *Build industry-standard recommender systems *Only familiarity with Python is required *No need to wade through complicated machine learning theory to use this book Book Description Recommendation systems are at the heart of almost every internet business today; from Facebook to Net?ix to Amazon. Providing good recommendations, whether it's friends, movies, or groceries, goes a long way in defining user experience and enticing your customers to use your platform. This book shows you how to do just that. You will learn about the different kinds of recommenders used in the industry and see how to build them from scratch using Python. No need to wade through tons of machine learning theory—you'll get started with building and learning about recommenders as quickly as possible.. In this book, you will build an IMDB Top 250 clone, a content-based engine that works on movie metadata. You'll use collaborative filters to make use of customer behavior data, and a Hybrid Recommender that incorporates content based and collaborative filtering techniques? With this book, all you need to get started with building recommendation systems is a familiarity with Python, and by the time you're fnished, you will have a great grasp of how recommenders work and be in a strong position to apply the techniques that you will learn to your own problem domains. What you will learn *Get to grips with the different kinds of recommender systems *Master data-wrangling techniques using the pandas library *Building an IMDB Top 250 Clone *Build a content based engine to recommend movies based on movie metadata *Employ data-mining techniques used in building recommenders *Build industry-standard collaborative filters using powerful algorithms *Building Hybrid Recommenders that incorporate content based and collaborative fltering Who this book is for If you are a Python developer and want to develop applications for social networking, news personalization or smart advertising, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques will be helpful, but not mandatory.

Leverage Splunk's operational intelligence capabilities to unlock new hidden business insights and drive success About This Book ? Tackle any problems related to searching and analyzing your data with Splunk ? Get the latest information and business insights on Splunk 7.x ? Explore the all new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.x Who This Book Is For This book is intended for data professionals who are looking to leverage the Splunk Enterprise platform as a valuable operational intelligence tool. The recipes provided in this book will appeal to individuals from all facets of business, IT, security, product, marketing, and many more! Even the existing users of Splunk who want to upgrade and get up and running with Splunk 7.x will find this book to be of great value. What You Will Learn ? Learn how to use Splunk to gather, analyze, and report on data ? Create dashboards and visualizations that make data meaningful ? Build an intelligent application with extensive functionalities ? Enrich operational data with lookups and workflows ? Model and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reporting ? Apply ML algorithms for forecasting and anomaly detection ? Summarize data for long term trending, reporting, and analysis ? Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk's API In Detail Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. With more than 70 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization. You’ll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization. Throughout the book, you’ll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Style and approach With more than 70 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization.

Automate the deployment of your environment with the power of the Docker toolchain About This Book ? Written and reviewed by expert Docker developers ? The book precisely covers all the essential topics such as building images and managing container swarms required in day to day use for Docker ? The book includes activities on the docker CLI and exercises such as writing Dockerfiles for Python which will allow you to reinforce the concepts covered Who This Book Is For The book is crafted for developers, system architects, junior and mid-level site reliability engineers interested in adapting a docker workflow. They are also required to have a basic knowledge of UNIX concepts such as ssh, ports and logs What You Will Learn ? Understand how to effectively design and build containers for different applications ? Setup an environment for testing, avoiding environment mismatch that is breaking production ? Setup and manage a multi-tier environment ? Run, debug, and experiment with applications in a container In Detail DevOps with Docker outlines the power of containerization and the influence this innovation has on development teams and general operations. We also get to understand what DevOps really is, the principles involved and how the process contributes to product health, by implementing a Docker workflow. We will learn to interpret Dockerfile syntax, build images and setup containers and images. In addition, we will deploy a Docker image to the Docker Hub.Docker is an open source containerization tool, that makes it easier to streamline product delivery. It helps reduce the time taken to get from a whiteboard sketch of the business to a money-back implementation. This fast-paced book is a perfect amalgamation of theory and hands-on exercises. The book will take you through the basics of Docker and DevOps and why and how they integrate. You will then understand what containers are, and how to create and manage them. Next, we will work on the docker-compose file and CLI. Then we will move to set up a network with the docker-compose tool. Gradually you will learn how to scale a delivery pipeline and multiple deployments with Docker. Lastly, you will grasp the concept of orchestration and learn to implement the delivery of containerized applications. Style and approach This is a fast-paced, practical hands-on book aimed at experienced developers and system architects. As you progress you’ll find helpful tips and tricks, as well as useful self-assessment material, exercises and activities to help benchmark your progress and reinforce what you’ve learned. The activities are devised to simulate the real-world conditions in order to equip you with the necessary skills to accelerate software deployment while still retaining security, portability and saving on costs.

Implement successful private clouds with OpenStack About This Book ? Gain hands-on experience in designing a private cloud for all infrastructures ? Create a robust virtual environment for your organization ? Design, implement and deploy an OpenStack-based cloud based on the Queens release Who This Book Is For OpenStack for Architects is for Cloud architects who are responsible to design and implement a private cloud with OpenStack. System engineers and enterprise architects will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of core OpenStack services, as well as some working experience of concepts, is recommended. What You Will Learn ? Learn the overall structure of an OpenStack deployment ? Craft an OpenStack deployment process which fits within your organization ? Apply Agile Development methodologies to engineer and operate OpenStack clouds ? Build a product roadmap for Infrastructure as a Service based on OpenStack ? Make use of containers to increase the manageability and resiliency of applications running in and on OpenStack. ? Use enterprise security guidelines for your OpenStack deployment In Detail Over the past six years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, including industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders, such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE, has led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Due to its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill set to design and implement it. OpenStack for Architects leads you through the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. This book will address the recent changes made in the latest OpenStack release i.e Queens, and will also deal with advanced concepts such as containerization, NVF, and security. At each point, the authors offer you advice based on the experience they've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, the book focuses on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout. Style and approach This is practical, hands-on guide to implementing OpenStack clouds, where each topic is illustrated with real-world examples and then the technical points are proven in the lab. Conceptual chapters are written in discussion style to convey important concepts quickly and present decision points for choosing options.

A step-by-step guide to get you up and running with Azure Networking Services and help you build solutions that leverage effective design patterns About This Book ? Learn best practices for designing and implementing Azure Networking for Azure VMs ? Figure out the hidden secrets to designing a cost-effective environment ? Plan, design, and implement various connectivity scenarios in Azure Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, IT professionals, and database admins who have prior experience of working on Microsoft Azure and want to make the most out of Azure Networking Services. What You Will Learn ? Understand Azure networking and use the right networking service to fulfill your needs ? Design Azure Networks for Azure VMs according to best practices ? Span your environment with Azure networking solutions ? Learn to use Azure DNS ? Implement Azure Load Balancer for highly available environments ? Distribute user traffic across the world via the Azure Traffic Manager ? Control your application delivery with Azure Application Gateway In Detail Microsoft Azure networking is one of the most valuable and important offerings in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find a compelling use for it. This book will get you up to speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Networking by teaching you how to use different networking services. By reading this book, you will develop a strong networking foundation for Azure virtual machines and for expanding your on-premise environment to Azure. Hands-On Networking with Azure starts with an introduction to Microsoft Azure networking and creating Azure Virtual Networks with subnets of different types within them. The book helps you understand the architecture of Azure networks. You will then learn the best practices for designing both Windows- and Linux-based Azure VM networks. You will also learn to expand your networks into Azure and how to use Azure DNS. Moreover, you will master best practices for dealing with Azure Load Balancer and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Azure Application Gateway works, offering various layer-7 load balancing capabilities for applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to architect your networking solutions for Azure. Style and approach This book provides in-depth insights into properly designing your environment and saving money on your running Azure Services. Using cutting-edge examples, you will learn to efficiently monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot Azure Networking

Learn how to solve real life problems using different methods like logic regression, random forests and SVM’s with TensorFlow. About This Book ? Understand predictive analytics along with its challenges and best practices ? Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at developers, data analysts, machine learning practitioners, and deep learning enthusiasts who want to build powerful, robust, and accurate predictive models with the power of TensorFlow. What You Will Learn ? Learn TensorFlow features in a real-life problem, followed by detailed TensorFlow installation and configuration ? Explore computation graphs, data, and programming models also get an insight into an example of implementing linear regression model for predictive analytics ? Solve the Titanic survival problem using logistic regression, random forests, and SVMs for predictive analytics ? Dig deeper into predictive analytics and find out how to take advantage of it to cluster records belonging to the certain group or class for a dataset of unsupervised observations ? Learn several examples of how to apply reinforcement learning algorithms for developing predictive models on real-life datasets In Detail Predictive analytics discovers hidden patterns from structured and unstructured data for automated decision making in business intelligence. Predictive decisions are becoming a huge trend worldwide, catering to wide industry sectors by predicting which decisions are more likely to give maximum results. TensorFlow, Google’s brainchild, is immensely popular and extensively used for predictive analysis. This book is a quick learning guide on all the three types of machine learning, that is, supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning with TensorFlow. This book will teach you predictive analytics for high-dimensional and sequence data. In particular, you will learn the linear regression model for regression analysis. You will also learn how to use regression for predicting continuous values. You will learn supervised learning algorithms for predictive analytics. You will explore unsupervised learning and clustering using K-meansYou will then learn how to predict neighborhoods using K-means, and then, see another example of clustering audio clips based on their audio features. This book is ideal for developers, data analysts, machine learning practitioners, and deep learning enthusiasts who want to build powerful, robust, and accurate predictive models with the power of TensorFlow. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. Style and approach This is a fast-paced guide that provides a quick learning solution to all the three types of machine learning, that is, supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning with TensorFlow Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt product: ? Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow by Md. Rezaul Karim

Boost your accounting and financial skills with Microsoft Dynamics 365 About This Book ? Make real-time data-driven decisions for your enterprise with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise edition ? Configure and set up the Microsoft Dynamics 365 financial module via highly useful tips and tricks ? Administer customer relations and plan enterprise resources with this systematic guide Who This Book Is For This book is for application consultants, solution architects, controllers, CFOs, pre-sales and other professionals who are involved in a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operation implementation. Basic knowledge of financial terms, concepts, and terminologies is required. What You Will Learn ? Examine the business logic behind the financial functionalities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 FFO ? Set up and configure the core modules of financial management ? Grasp the key control points of financial management ? Explore intercompany and consolidation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 FFO ? Understand multi-currency sales, tax mechanisms, and budgeting capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 FFO ? Get to grips with month/year-end period close functionality ? Understand the account payable and receivable module ? Use Microsoft Dynamics 365 to create financial reports In Detail Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations is a rapidly growing application and is widely used in enterprise organizations. Because of its ability to maximize business productivity, it is a fast-growing business application package in the ERP market. We will start by looking into ERP concepts, implementation needs, and interface design, giving you basic knowledge of financial management aspects and explaining key concepts along the way. To begin with, you'll be taken through the general ledger and financial dimension functions. You'll later learn about the sales tax mechanism and multi-currency in Microsoft Dynamics 365. We tackle each topic with focused examples and explanations on topics such as payable/receivable accounts, forecasting, cash and bank management, budgeting planning/control, and fixed assets. Finally, we walk you through intercompany, consolidation, costing basics, and financial reporting. By the end of this book, your finance team will have a much richer understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations and its powerful capabilities. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step guide focusing on implementing Dynamics 365 financial management for your organization.